Sentences with phrase «turned back on»

«Late Judaism,» the Judaism from the period of the Babylonian exile to the revolt of bar Kokhba, is characterized as inauthentic Judaism, a Judaism that turned its back on genuine faith in the Lord, the God of Israel, and the message of the prophets.

They don even know that to which they owe their existence and have turned their back on the fundamentals necessary to turn the wheel of life.

When Jesus said,» Why have you forsaken me» he said this because God the Father turned His back on Him, not because of how bad he had been beaten, because the scriptures made it clear that «it pleased the Father to crush Him», but because God hates sin and can't stand to look at it and because Jesus took on the sins of the entire world he became sin and when God the Father looked at Him he saw sin.

Homosexuals are often among those who have turned their back on the church, and may be sinning because they also rejected the God they found in church.

Same thing when the bible says that the Father turned His back on the Son when He was on the cross.

I felt that He had turned His back on me.

I had totally turned my back on any religious activity until our local retired Pastor put me onto your website.

That God has thrown up his arms, turned his back on you.

I don't agree but I understand: If you were 80 years old already (a rough estimate for an average human life span), you would have to hear someone tell you that they had turned their back on organized religion about 6050 times per second for your entire life just to pay off the national debt.

If I had a dollar for every time someone told me they turned their back on organized religion or never bothered in the first place because of hypocrisy, I could write a check and eliminate the national debt.

We hear much of «the silence of God,» and Jacques Ellul, a distinguished French lay theologian, has written a book entitled Hope in Time of Abandonment in which he presents evidence from the state of society and the church that God seems at least temporarily to have turned his back on the world.

Kaper says — «The Church turned its back on me when my husband left me.

They attribute social ills such as «widespread family breakdown, immorality and social integration» to the fact that «the nation has largely turned her back on Jesus and embraced alternative ideas such as secular humanism, moral relativism and sexual licence».

«The British public are rightly proud that our great nation hasn't turned its back on the world's poorest people.

«it was divine intervention» he turned his back on God and was punished?!

Accepting liberalism's spirit (openness to change), he turned his back on its creed (the painless improvability of man).

It is being turned back on almost every front (except on the campus, of course).

Islam turned its back on the science (mostly lifted from the Greeks and Romans) and the math (stolen from the Hindus that Islam was merrily murdering for being polytheists) and retreated into century after century of violent religious bigotry and intolerance.

... Because I think my entire perenial garden (living things) have turned their back on faith.

Whatever criticism I might level against «fundamental» beliefs could easily be turned back on me (which is why I try not to do that).

So compelling, in fact, that almost on the spur of the moment you turned your back on the fishing business, left your wife and kids who were perplexed if not put out at your departure, and went off with the wandering teacher.

God has turned his back on the unbelieving world in its sin, but through Christ, we have reconciliation.

When I used to attend (evangelical christian) church there was always a vocal strain of folks who wanted to think they were persecuted, they told made - up stories about christians being persecuted in various parts of the world (at the time a lot of them were set in the U.S.S.R.)... it was so obvious that they LOVED thinking of themselves as some small group of martyrs, that they NEEDED to imagine themselves to be a persecuted minority... holding on to some secret truth that the rest of the world had turned its back on.

And a lot of these things are happening around us, and somebody is going to get mad at me for saying what I am about to say right now, but I am going to give you my honest opinion: I think we have turned our back on the Scripture and on God Almighty and I think he has allowed judgment to fall upon us.

However, we have turned our back on God.

Question: I turned my back on God and fear I can not be fully - restored.

I was a Spirit filled born - again believer and I turned my back on God and entered into some very terrible sins.

Because they had turned the gas off and, ten days later, hadn't turned it back on.

By a tiny «tangential» increase, the «radial» was turned back on itself and so to speak took an infinite leap forward.»

(UPDATED) Two dozen Protestant families get utilities turned back on after two years of punishment.

I used to be catholic I believed in God as a kid but when I grew older I turned my back on God have not even been to church in 5 to 6 years now could this be a sign or is it a allusion I am making into a big deal which really ai nt that big of a deal maybe I gone insane I don't know I don't want to sound like I'm bragging to seek attention for this which I am not I am simply just looking for some insight on why this has occurred to me.

We're going to put Wheaton College under a microscope and see that they've turned their back on many serious cases of hazing and hold them responsible to a large extent for what happened.»

Sounds to me like you have turned your back on God and mocked him in every way possible.

You turned your back on us.»

LDS church teaches that God cursed Cain by turning his skin black along with the skin of all his descendents;; therefore God has turned his back on anyone with black skin.

He turned his back on millions of children around the world!

He turned his back on teh woman's mother, who was NOT a lesbian, because he disagreed with the daughter's lifestyle.

I think it hilarious that all his church buddies turned their back on him and atheists are writing him checks.

His father turned his back on him, I believe from the moment Judas kissed him, the same moment I believe he became our sin for us.

Don't be afraid... we can all help each other, just like we HAVE BEEN DOING since your god turned his back on you, or more to the point, never existed.

Wouldn't it be a miracle if one day, perhaps in my lifetime, humans turned their back on the past and became the one incarnation of the species Homo sapiens to accept that there is no god and pour their intelligence and resources into the discovery of reality?

«Peter Lougheed created STEP in his first year as Premier, but now this PC Party has turned its back on his vision and destroyed thousands of student job opportunities,» said Notley.

Horgan says the Christy Clark government has turned its back on British Columbians living in the...

In yet another email exchange, Parrott notes that «all the investors will get this very quickly» in response to a message from Mary Goodman, a managing director at James Caird Asset Management (and a former Senior Advisor to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner who later served as Special Assistant to the President for Financial Markets at the National Economic Council), who stated that the Net Worth Sweep «should lay to rest permanently the idea that the outstanding privately held pref will ever get turned back on.»

He turned his back on America's allies and handed China a giant strategic victory.

I turned it back on to write this post for the chance of getting a NevBox (come to me mysterious cardboard!).

Amazon has not only turned its back on the ill - fated Fire Phone, but has seen dramatic growth in several major areas of its business, including the Amazon Web Services cloud platform that many corporations use to automate much of their online operations.

Like Jobs, Cook has also turned his back on conventional wisdom.

Despite growing fears that Harvard Business School has turned its back on financiers and consultants, it's more likely that recently rejected applicants to the elite MBA program fell victim to common application fumbles.

While Walmart hasn't publicly commented on why it's turned its back on Apple Pay, its decision in 2015 to launch Walmart Pay suggested the retailer was ready to do battle.